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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jared think there could be in the basement with bad luck?
(a) A bear.
(b) A rattlesnake nest.
(c) A foot of water.
(d) A lot of slime and mold.

2. What did the children hear in the wall?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Small footsteps and scratching.
(c) Someone mumbling to himself.
(d) A low moaning sound.

3. What is odd about Mallory's hair?
(a) It is tied in strands to the bedpost.
(b) It is blue.
(c) It is green.
(d) It is extremely short and blue.

4. What does Mallory tell her mother when her mother comes in the kitchen?
(a) There is a squirrel in the wall.
(b) She is thirsty.
(c) She isn't sleepy.
(d) She has forgotten her book.

5. What does Jared think his siblings don't know since they left the kitchen with him still upstairs?
(a) That he wants to talk to them.
(b) That he wants to wait to come down until he reads the Field Guide.
(c) That he is in a room without a door.
(d) That he has gone to bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is there tension among Mallory, Jared and Simon?

2. What tended to drown out the noises of Simon's animals in the children's previous house?

3. What does Mallory stack on top of a steamer trunk?

4. What did Simon's mother pretend not to notice about what he brought?

5. How is the children's mother acting as she serves the meal?

(see the answer key)

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